Football and Teams

It seems natural to assume that football is a sport meant for enjoyment and entertainment. But as so prominently displayed on Monday, it can be so much more than a pigskin and twelve players. The sport of football requires training, agility, skill, balance, cooperation, and concentration. The training for each style of move requires a coach who is willing to allow growth among each individual player. In the book, "Self-Directed Work Teams," the authors explain how empowerment is key to the success of the team as a whole. "It is the function of four important variables:authority, resources, information, and accountability." (15)
The authority is about having a person to lead and guide, and resources are provided for growth and productivity. and the information on how to throw a football, how a play is operated etc. is necessary to continue to play to full potential. On Monday our class experience the justice of empowerment, having to depend on Zach to provide adequate teaching so that I, and each other student could grasp the concept of each pass and block. It was important that he not just dictate the game, but allow some freedoms and liberties among the team members so that the game would not become a game of running back and forth from the field to ask permission to complete a pass or through the football accurately. If this would seem ridiculous on the playing field, than it obviously shows that in the corporate world it would be equally strenuous.